• Customer: Leading Global Technology Distributor of IT and electronics offering end-to-end solutions for today's reseller and retailer and the clients they serve across the SMB and Consumer markets. Headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA.

• Two of their larger vendors McAfee and Cisco (via E2OPEN) requested our customer to have RosettaNet connectivity for exchange of business documents like Orders, Invoices and Shipments.

• The legacy GXS EDI translator did not support RosettaNet connectivity out of the box and an upgrade would have cost a fairly large sum of money for licenses and services. $300,000+ and six months to implement.

• A managed services offering from the larger players like GXS, IBM, Accenture, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and HP would require a lot of money to setup as well as to run on an annual basis - $100,000+/ year.

• The CIO was asked by the business to ensure that they were able to meet their vendor’s RosettaNet electronic compliance requirements within one month. Our customer potentially risked an impact to their business with the two vendors suggesting that RosettaNet compliance was a fundamental prerequisite to doing business with them.

TANGENTIA ENGAGEMENT

• This customer was referred to Tangentia by another existing customer from California that used the Tangentia Commerce Gateway (TCG) service to connect via RosettaNet with Nokia and Intel.

• Once engaged, Tangentia was able to get both the vendors (McAfee and Cisco) up and running in production with 100% RosettaNet compliance within 1 month. The cost of the TCG option was less than 50% of all comparable alternatives for RosettaNet compliance.

RESULTS

• RosettaNet compliance project completed on time and on budget

• Cost of less than $25,000 for setup of RosettaNet Gateway

• Setup of RosettaNet Gateway and Integration/ Testing in less than 30 days

• The customer now has access to the Tangentia Commerce Gateway hosted cloud based, managed services solution with Guaranteed RosettaNet Compliance for life

• 99.99% uptime

• 24/7 support

TECHNOLOGY USED

• Tangentia Commerce Gateway

• IBM Sterling B2B Collaboration Network (Sterling VAN)

DELIVERY MODEL & TEAM SIZE

• Project Manager and Lead Architect working from the Tangentia Toronto, Canada office and 2 EDI consultants working from the Tangentia Goa, India office.